Meandering through the side of the stream in the village, An Yi listened to the report of Lu Xiong, the leader of the platoon, and ordered Dong Yanzi to bring the map and spread it out, and discuss it with Hu Zi and several company deputies and instructors around the map.

Hu Zi pointed to the Shuangshan in the north and said: "If you set off at nine o'clock, before half past one o'clock at noon, we can climb over the two mountain passes in the northeast, and after walking this seven-kilometer mountain road, you can rest for an hour at the southern foot of Shuangshan before setting off.

According to the plan issued by the division headquarters before departure, the main force of our division should have arrived at the Yanglou Division yesterday afternoon to rest and recuperate, but we did not know where the division headquarters camp was located. ”

"This problem is not big, you send two five-person reconnaissance teams to rush to Yanglou Division in advance, with the speed of a platoon of brothers, it only takes three hours to arrive with light equipment, this time it should be enough to calculate seven hours, and now we can return to the southern foot of Shuangshan at noon to report the news to us."

What I'm worried about now is that there may be routs along the way, according to the reconnaissance reports of several groups of Lu Xiong, there may be small groups of routs in no less than three sections along the way, and it is estimated that these routs who have been struggling in the mountains for several days and nights will not dare to attack our brigade, but they cannot be unprepared. The brethren all talked about what was the most reasonable and safe way to travel. An Yi analyzed in detail and consulted everyone's opinions.

After everyone discussed for a while, it was decided that Hu Zi would lead the second and third platoons of the second company to play the forward, and after Cai Guangqing, the deputy of the second company, and Mu Chaiyi, the instructor, led the two platoons of the second company, and the baggage team composed of the second company, the machine gun detachment and the newcomers marched in the middle of the team, and the other Guishun brothers were mixed in.

Seeing that An Yi was about to make a final decision, Huang Yingwu, the instructor of the first company, made a suggestion in time: "Deputy battalion commander, everyone, I think that there will not be too many routs on the road ahead, it is very likely that there will be a small rabble of three or dozens of people gathered together, it is difficult to have a brigade like the three hundred and four people of the Seventh Mixed Brigade who arrived in the early morning, and most of these routs are facing a desperate situation and running out of ammunition and food, so the subordinates have an idea, if they let their subordinates bring the direct sixth who surrendered in the past two days, Several veterans of the 7th Mixed Brigade and the 7th Hunan and Hubei Frontier Regiment walked in front, carrying a few big flags and shouting when they saw the movement, which may reduce a lot of trouble. ”

An Yi stood up happily: "Good idea!" Grandma's parrot, it is not in vain that Ji Nan introduced your kid to join the party and tried his best to ensure that you were promoted to warrant officer, and he really knew people, haha! Brothers listen, no matter whether this thing is successful or not, no matter what the effect is, it is a very effective coping strategy at present, Lao Tzu will write down a credit to the parrot first, and after he returns, he will write it into a special report and submit it to the division! ”

Huang Yingwu was overjoyed, and under the envious gaze of the brothers, he happily ran to select people and horses to prepare the flag.

Hu Zi greeted him and went to arrange a reconnaissance mission, and the other seven or eight company deputies, instructors, and platoon commanders also returned to various units to make intensive preparations.

An Yi came to the side of the three hundred captive brothers who were full of food and drink and slept with their heads covered and took a closer look, and saw that the watch on their wrists was exactly seven o'clock, so he motioned to Dong Yanzi and the others to let this group of tired brothers sleep a little longer.

An Yi patrolled around, and when he walked to the temporary cooking class at the bend of the stream, he saw Huang Yingwu holding a few flags and teaching a few new veteran ruffians distressedly:

"Look...... Look at it, it's ruined like this! These ten flags were all sewn by dozens of villagers in Shuanggang Village yesterday morning, and you grandsons actually used them to wrap bacon? Oh my God...... I'm really convinced! I don't have any political consciousness at all, so how can I teach you...... Do you understand the battle flag? Battle flags! Don't you have any sense of honor......"

An Yi couldn't help but laugh and walked in front of a group of veterans with their heads down: "Parrot, it doesn't matter if the flag is dirty, let's hold it up first, it's hard for others to see it and think that our flag has been baptized by gunsmoke, haha!" Time is limited, a few brothers in the second platoon are waiting for you, quickly pull your people and set off, I will ask Dong Yanzi to prepare the flower machine gun for you, leave it to me here. ”

Hearing An Yi say this, Huang Yingwu had no choice but to leave quickly with ten battle flags stained with oil and smoke, ran to the front and found bamboo poles with the selected seven or eight captive brothers to quickly prop them up, and when he looked up, the battle flags really seemed to have been baptized by war, he grinned and was not angry, shook his head and shouted at the brothers to walk to the front of the team together.

At eight o'clock, a sharp whistle sounded, hundreds of brothers got up, and under the command of 10 veteran acting platoon commanders selected from more than 10 revolutionary army squad leaders and prisoners, they walked down the stream in an orderly manner to wash.

Due to the shortage of bowls and chopsticks, the villagers have already cut a section of bamboo to break two halves as a bowl, and the trimmed thousands of fine bamboos have become chopsticks, although it is simple, it can also ensure that six or seven hundred brothers can eat conveniently, for which An Yi quietly gave the village elder ten oceans to buy salt, as a little compensation for his brothers to disturb the villagers, so that a group of simple and poor villagers were moved.

Before the hundreds of brothers had finished their breakfast, they saw a row of three sharp soldiers leading seventy or eighty beggar-like routs running in from the entrance of the village to the north.

An Yi hurriedly ordered the cooks to hurry up and deliver rice and meat, put down his rice bowl and led the temporary adjutant Dong Yanzi and the new clerk Zeng Changgeng to meet him.

Who knew that the defeated soldiers didn't even look at An Yi, they all surrounded four or five cooking soldiers who delivered food, grabbed the wooden barrel and put it on the ground, grabbed it with their hands and stuffed it into their mouths, they didn't care about their dirty hands and the scorching temperature of the food, they were all like hungry ghosts released from hell and were scrambling endlessly, they didn't care about the overturned meat and vegetables spilled on the ground, and even grabbed the mud and meat and stuffed it into their mouths, seeing An Yi and hundreds of brothers stunned and sad.

After listening to the report of the three top soldiers, An Yi waved his hand to let them go, stopped the squad and platoon leaders who were about to step forward to teach a lesson, and silently watched the seventy or eighty people wipe out the four buckets of rice and two pots of meat, and waited for them to gradually regain their senses before they stepped forward and asked:

"Brothers, can you speak first when you have something in your stomach? Don't worry, there are enough meals for you to eat, but you can't let them eat anymore now, otherwise you will have to choke to death...... Okay, if you want to join our team, immediately put down your weapons and jump into the stream, wash your body and clothes, and then come up to report for duty, if you don't want to join us, please leave immediately! ”

Seventy or eighty brothers looked at each other for a moment, then they all threw down their guns and jumped into the waist-deep stream, and washed their hair and undressed their trousers as quickly as they could.

An Yi nodded with satisfaction, called the acting platoon commander who was temporarily in charge of the cooking squad to whisper a few words, and the veteran platoon commander from the direct Sixth Mixed Brigade nodded frequently and said that he would arrange it immediately, and before leaving, he also told An Yi: The veteran who jumped into the stream he knew, and he was a fellow of Tongbai like him, and he was also from the Sixth Mixed Brigade.

At 3:40 p.m., the brigade led by An Yi finally came to camp at the southern foot of Shuangshan, two and a half hours later than expected. The contingent of more than 800 people has increased to more than 1,350 people, and Huang Yingwu's actions have achieved brilliant results, he and seven or eight brothers shouted and shouted along the way, and a team of more than 100 people and as little as five or six people ran out of the mountains and forests after hearing the news, so that the marching ranks continued to swell, and they stopped again and again to pacify and accept, so that the speed of the march was greatly reduced.

What made An Yi and Hu Zi excited was that although the defeated soldiers who had been attached one after another in half a day were no longer like the three hundred defeated soldiers who arrived in the early morning, carrying many light and heavy weapons, they still added seven heavy machine guns and nine light machine guns, and the more than 500 defeated soldiers who joined one after another also retained more than 270 long and short guns.

Just when An Yi, Hu Zi and the others were full of joy, the reconnaissance team rushed to report: The two regiments of He Jian's Division of the Eighth Army, stationed in Shijiaqiao, two kilometers south of Yanglou Sicheng, seem to have discovered the whereabouts of our unit and are moving southward in a big way, and they are currently less than 1.5 kilometers away from the north of Shuangshan Village!

An Yi and Hu Zi were taken aback, and immediately realized that the Eighth Army wanted to annex the group of defeated soldiers they had worked so hard to collect! Because at one o'clock in the afternoon, five brothers led by Chen Kan, the deputy of the first company, successfully found the division headquarters camp in Yanglou Division, and on the way back, the two groups of brothers greeted the star officer of He Jianshi, who was stationed in Shijiaqiao, and told each other in detail that their task force had a total of about 900 people. The two regiments of He Jianshi's regiment were absolutely uneasy and well-intentioned at this time, and it was very likely that they forcibly snatched their own soldiers and a large number of weapons that had been captured with great difficulty on the pretext that they had not received any notice and under the pretext of clearing out the remnants of the army.

"Xiao Yi, you can't hesitate any longer, if you really can't do it, let's retreat south temporarily, I will immediately send another group of brothers to the division headquarters to ask for help. The current situation is very critical, and it is estimated that the spies sent by the other party have discovered the size and whereabouts of our team, and they must have come prepared! Otherwise, how could it be two regiments as soon as they were dispatched? Beard suggested in a deep voice.

An Yi glanced at the Shuangshan Pass, which was about two hundred meters high in the north, and ordered loudly in an unquestionably stern tone: "Brother Lian Lian listen to Lao Tzu, take all the guys, occupy the favorable terrain of the mountain pass as quickly as possible, and anyone who dares to rush up will be beaten hard by Lao Tzu!" ”

"Yes!"

The brothers replied loudly and immediately took action, and the brothers in the first and second platoons took the lead in rushing up the mountain road under the leadership of Lu Xiong and Qu Tongyuan, the two stunned young platoon leaders.

An Yi turned to the beard: "Immediately lead your machine gun detachment to carry all the light and heavy machine guns, occupy the commanding heights and set up all the erections for Lao Tzu, even if there are no bullets, Lao Tzu will scare these sons of bitches to death!" ”

"Yes!"

Beard ran to the machine gun detachment at the foot of the mountain, and with a shout he drove dozens of brothers up, carrying twenty-four heavy machine guns and swarming up.

An Yi rushed to a boulder and shouted loudly to the panicked thousands of captives below: "Brothers, Lao Tzu has worked hard to bring everyone here from the mountains, and I see that we can enter our camp after crossing this mountain, take a bath comfortably, change into clean clothes, eat a peaceful meal and sleep peacefully, I didn't expect someone to want to surround all of our more than a thousand people and take them prisoner again!" Brothers, although Lao Tzu has not been with you for more than a day, Lao Tzu is confident that he can stand up to you and his conscience! Lao Tzu never wants anyone to bully Lao Tzu's subordinates and capture Lao Tzu's brothers, who the dares to fight Lao Tzu's idea, Lao Tzu will definitely let him have no return! Now I want to listen to the brothers, would you like to follow Lao Tzu to do it? Are you willing to share weal and woe with Lao Tzu? Would you like to—"

"Willing-"

"Good! Brothers, you have tied a red belt, and from now on you will be the brothers of Lao Tzu, and in times of crisis, take out our blood surnames, my brothers are by no means a mischievous species who can only escape! My brother is going to live in this troubled world! Follow Lao Tzu—"

An Yi pulled out his pistol and fired three shots in a row, and the thousands of brothers who were so excited that their blood was boiling shouted in unison with red eyes, and they rushed to the top of the mountain like locusts.

An Yi pointed a gun at Huang Yingwu: "Parrot, carry our big flag, follow behind Lao Tzu, and plant all the big flags on the highest peak of Twin Mountains!" ”

"Obey the order—brothers, carry the battle flag and go up with Lao Tzu—"

Huang Yingwu pulled out his shell gun, carried the big flag on the ground, and led nearly 100 unarmed brothers to rush up the mountain col with their lives.

An Yi, who ran up the mountain col at an astonishing speed, quickly glanced at the brothers of the various departments that occupied nearly 200 meters of favorable terrain, and ran to the beard between the two heavy machine guns with confidence, squatting beside him to observe the thousands of officers and soldiers slowly approaching under the mountain.

Hu Zi handed the binoculars to An Yi: "The number of attackers below is about seven thousand, advancing in a fan shape, there is no artillery, it seems that they didn't expect us to have such a tough reaction." Look, about two o'clock to the right in front of us, there are more than a dozen officials standing at the head of the small stone bridge, observing us with binoculars, and they seem to be arguing. ”

An Yi took the telescope and pointed it at the stone bridgehead, smiled, and turned to Shi Junren, the machine gun platoon commander next to him: "Old Shi, Lao Tzu wants to warn the group of grandsons under the mountain!" Listen to me, and at once order your brethren who have bullets to raise their guns, and at the first moment of command they will shoot into the sky, and only stop when they have finished a bullet bag. ”

"Yes!"

The sturdy Shi Junren immediately stood up without hesitation, and shouted an order to the brothers who were in control of more than 20 light and heavy machine guns on the left and right: "All the machine gun detachments obey the order!" Raise the muzzle of the gun forty-five degrees...... Preparation...... Fire—"

"Dada......"

More than 7,000 officers and men of He Jianshi's division, who were approaching at the foot of the mountain, were so frightened that they immediately lay down, and the officers of all units only heard the dense gunfire and did not see the bullets flying, and immediately realized that this was the other party issuing a warning, and looked at the Shuangshan in front of them, which was inclined at more than 40 degrees, and sighed helplessly, knowing that they could no longer climb up under such a dense light and heavy machine gun blockade, but they did not dare to retreat without an order, and more than 7,000 people could only lie on the rocks at the foot of the mountain and wait anxiously.

The gunfire stopped, everything returned to calm, and the two sides confronted each other silently for nearly ten minutes.

He Jian, who was at Shiqiaotou, heard a report from his subordinates: The Sixth Regiment of the Second Division stationed in the east of the city had been fully armed and rapidly moving, followed by a large number of troops running to follow, and the first six military trucks full of officers and soldiers had already rushed through the checkpoint and were less than a kilometer away from the headquarters.

He Jian put down the binoculars in annoyance, opened a pair of small eyes and ordered a retreat, he closed his thick lips, sorted out the brim of his hat, led more than ten subordinates across the stone bridge, and greeted Liu Xiao and Hu Shusen, who had just jumped off the front of the truck, and smiled apologetically:

"Oops! It's all misunderstood, and I help my brother...... It was really surprising to receive the information that a large number of enemy troops were attacking our army's garrison, and I immediately led two regiments under my command to meet the battle, who knew that I took a closer look at the flag on the mountain, and only then did I know that it was the team of the brother Jingfu, which was too surprising! Brother, I have given the order to retreat, and our officers and men are retreating in obedience. Fortunately, it was clarified in time that there was no big misunderstanding, otherwise I would have no shame to face Brother Jingfu and my colleagues! Haha......"

Liu Xiao also laughed: "Where, where!" Those who don't know don't blame it, not to mention that everything Brother Yunqiao does is based on the interests of the revolutionary army, haha...... It's also because the little brother didn't notify Brother Yunqiao in time, which caused this misunderstanding, and please don't mind Brother Yunqiao! ”

"Okay, since that's the case, let's ask Brother Jing Fu to welcome back to his team, in the future, your two armies need to communicate more, haha...... Don't delay the time of Brother Jingfu and you, the misunderstanding has been cleared, brother, I can also go back to report to Chief Tang, and leave for the time being! He Jian arched his hand and walked away with a smile.

Liu Xiao and Hu Shusen also happily returned the salute, seeing He Jian lead his subordinates to fight their horses and turn to the 7,000 officers and soldiers of the Eighth Army who were retreating in despair, Liu Xiao and the others sighed helplessly.

Hui Dongsheng scolded angrily: "He's too much of a bully, he is a snake on the ground, he dares to bully our first army, and he dares to brazenly prevaricate with a mistake in intelligence, if we hadn't heard the dense gunfire of Shuangshan and rushed at full speed, I don't know how He Jian Pifu bullied An Yi's department." ”

"Forget it, in the past few days from Yueyang all the way north, haven't you learned enough about Tang Shengzhi's despicability? Even the hundreds of remnants of the enemy in the encirclement of our second division, he can forcibly take them away under the pretext that he has already surrendered to him in advance, and now the local armed and defective troops have reached more than 35,000 people, this time he saw that An Yi had gained so much, and the prisoners were all veteran ruffians who had survived the catastrophe, Tang Shengzhi and his generals did not salivate! Fortunately, An Yi boy had the courage and insight, and took the lead in seizing the advantageous terrain and warning us with intensive gunfire, so that He Jian touched the big nail, but his excuses also made me wait, at this time when all parties seek common ground while reserving differences and go all out to go on the Northern Expedition, even if we sue the commander-in-chief, it will be over in the end, bear with it! The rational Hu Shusen whispered to appease the angry generals around him.

Liu Xiao sighed, pointed to An Yi's department in front of him, who was descending the mountain, and said loudly: "Everyone, let's go and meet An Yi first, I didn't expect our small attempt to decide to let An Yi lead two hundred sappers under his command to bring us such a harvest, if it weren't for the unusually dense gunfire, I really can't believe that he can bring back thousands of people and capture dozens of light and heavy machine guns, a lot must have happened in the past few days, it's hard for him!" ”

Liu Xiao led a group of generals of the Second Division to the foot of the mountain quickly, and saw the flaming red banner at the top from a distance, and the six dazzling banners with the words "Second Division of the First Army" were hunting and waving in the sunset......

(To be continued)